Outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison ...

Update: Oklahoma carried out four executions in 2024, making the state tied for third overall nationwide, behind Texas with ...

David Ware, for the slaying of a Tulsa police officer. A handful of death-penalty cases are pending, including in ...

The nearly 1,000-day stretch without a new death sentence is Oklahoma’s longest since at least 1974, according to data ...

The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office requested the state’s appellate court to schedule the next execution in March, in line ...

The nearly 1,000-day stretch without a new death sentence is Oklahoma’s longest since at least 1974, according to data ...

Who has faced criminal charges after our reporting on organized crime in Oklahoma’s marijuana industry? Will the state be forced to buy out landowners flooded by Grand Lake? The Frontier is updating ...

Only Texas has carried out more executions since Oklahoma resumed lethal injections three years ago. Oklahoma started doing ...

Oklahoma County's new DA is taking a committee approach to deciding whether a murder case warrants the death penalty.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 23 people were executed in the United States in 2023. The number of death sentences imposed was 21. There are 2,180 people on death row in the United ...

In this roundup, find a Wellston woman's sentence and an FY 2026 budget projection portending tight times for the 2025 ...

The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in 2024 and was mostly carried out in a small group of ...